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Zurich Herald, 1956-06-07, Page 2118LEoiam TALKS IF you're preparing a gelatin dessert and want it to set in a hurry, here's a useful hint. Just ndd to the gelatin, already dis- solved in 1 cup boiling water, 8-10 good-sized ice cubes and stir for about 3 minutes, or un- til gelatin becomes sirupy and the cubes stop melting. Then re- move ice cubes and set bowl Of gelatin in refrigerator to chill, It will set in about lb hour. If you like to accent the flavor Of fruit -flavored gelatin, add 1 eup grapefruit juice instead of cold water as called for in the package directions. Or, add 1 cup of gingerale, apricot nectar, or orange juice instead of water. For an entirely new taste, mix two compatible gelatins such as orange and black raspberry. * * * Here is a dessert that is fluffy and creamy, yet not too rich. It's a gelatin cream whip which can be made as festive as you please when ringed with whipped cream, garnished with mint and served with your fa- vorite fresh fruit. GELATIN CREAM WHIP 1 pkg. black cherry, grape, or black raspberry gelatin 1 eup hot water 1 cup cold water Yr cup whipping cream Additional whipped cream for garnish Sprigs of mint Grapes, red raspberries, Bing cherries or other fresh fruit. Dissolve gelatin in hotwater; add cold water. Chill until slightly thickened. Place bowl of gelatin in ice water, and beat with egg beater until thick and fluffy. Whip cream and fold into whipped gelatin. Pour into serv- ing dish and chill until firm. Garnish with a piping of whip- ped cream and mint sprigs and serve with side dishes of the fruits. • * * * Banana sponge brightened with gay rparaschino cherries is Mb TRACY HAIRDO — Usually groom- ed to perfection, Princess Mar- garet sports a wind-blown hair- eio as she attends a point-to- oint meet of the West Norfolk Hunt at Sorle, near Sandring- ham, England. another delicious dessert for early summer. , CHERRY BANANA SPONGE I pkg. lemon -flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water cup cold water 2 tblsps. lemon juice 3i4. tsp. grated lemon rind 3 bananas 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten 34 cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained (15 cher- ries) Whipped cream Maraschino cherry halves Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add cold water, lemon juice, and rind. Mash 2 bananas well and add to gelatin mixture, mixing well. Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Beat well. Fold in egg whites and chopped cher- ries. Pile lightly into serving dishes and chill until firm. Top with whipped cream. Slice re- maining banana. Garnish with banana slices and cherry halves. * * Sliced peaches and red rasp- berries combine to make this mold that is sliced for serving a festive treat. GYPSY FRUIT MOLD 1 pkg. orange -flavored gela- tin 1 cup hot water I cup cold water 1 11/2 cups sliced peaches 1 cup fresh red raspberries Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add cold water. Pour a thin layer into a loaf mold and chill until firm. Chill remaining gela- tin until slightly thickened. Ar- range peaches on firm layer and cover with a layer of slightly thickened gelatin. Chill until firm. Add berries and cover with remaining gelatin. Chill until firm. Unmold and cut in slices to serve. Serves 8. * * * APPLESAUCE SNOW 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 5/4 eup water % tsp. grated lemon rind 1 tblsp. lemon juice 13/4 cups (1 pound can) sweet- ened applesauce 2 egg whites Mix together thoroughly in top of double boiler the gelatin, salt and sugar. Add water. Place over boiling water and stir until gelatin is thoroughly dissolved. Remove from heat. Add lemon rind and juice, and applesauce. Chill until mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon. Add the unbeaten egg whites and beat with a rotary beater until mixture begins to hold its shape. Turn into a 5 -cup mold or into individual molds. Chill until firm. Serves 8. * * * APRICOT SPONGE PIE 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1/9 teaspoon salt 11/ cups very hot apricot nec- tar (1 -ounce can) 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 egg whites 1 coconut pie shell Combine gelatin, sugar, and salt; mix well. Add hot nectar and stir until gelatin is thorough- ly dissolved. Add lemon juice and almond extract. Chill to slightly thicker than unbeaten egg white consistency. Add the 2 unbeaten egg whites and beat with rotary beater until mixture begins to hold its shape. Turn into pie shell and chill. Coconut Pie Shell. Grease a 9 -inch pie plate with 1 teaspoon butter or margarine. 'Empty a 4 -ounce can shredded coconut into pie plate and press against sides and bottom of plate. Bake at 325° F about 10 mins. Cool. POLITICS WITH A GRIN --Members of the Women's National Press Club act out a skit entitled "Ike Brushes Off the Farmers" at the WNPC's annual dinner and stunt party in Washington. President and Mrs. Eisenhower were guests of honor at the affair. Above, Betty Beal, of the Washington Star, portrays Ike attempting fa hit a coif ball off the nose of "farmer" Mary Lyne, of the U.S. Information Administration. The "farmer's wife° is Patricia Wiggins, of United Press. SNAKES ALIVE — Standing at a relatively safe distance, Banker Joe Durham, catches a rattlesnake, thanks to a clever snagg- ing device. It's all part of the annual rattlesnake hunt sponsored by the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. This year's hunt brought in 2400 live snakes. Venom is sold to makers of snake- bite serum and best of the snakes go to zoos. • y w PUZZLE — What's the man do- ing inside the machine ? At one time, any schoolboy could have answered the question. He's a steam locomotive inspector, making a periodic checkup of the firebox of a King Arthur class engine in London, Eng- land. As the diesel pushes the locomotive down the track to memory, this sight will eventu- ally vanish from the transporta- tion scene entirely. Some Prophets Who Guess Wrong Space travel enthusiasts will not readily forgive Professor Richard Woolley, the new As- tronomer Royal, for his severe castigation of their dreams. "The future of interplanetary travel is utter bilge," he has said. But let them take heart. Pre- dictions of wise men often prove sheer clap -trap. Some planet ex- plorers may even be hurtling through outer space in Profes- sor Woolley's lifetime. And here are some good reasons why ... If we had listened to the "cold water" prophets of the past, men of high r e p u t e in their own spheres, we should still living in a semi -barbarian world, with- out trains, steamships, aero- planes, electricity, gas, radio, tel- evision, cinemas, typewriters, telephones and almost every im- aginable comfort and amenity. The Hon. C. S. Rolls, himself highly distinguished as a motor- ing and flying pioneer, once said: "I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in 'our time' . moreover, owing to the lightness of the air, in which the aeroplane has to operate, I do not think it will ever be used for carrying either goods or a large number of pas- sengers." Frank H. Butler, the noted aviator and friend of Wilbur Wright, said this about flying the Atlantic in 1910: "A man of thirty may see the feat accom- plished but for myself I think the probabilities are rather against it," Only nine years later, John Alcock and Ar t h u r Whitten Browri, both" Glasgow -born, con- founded him and won a 850,000 prize by making the first teens - atlantic flight in history. Variicr o'l, Pt t': ` r•' a nr..'S turn, Just when the Wright brothers w e r e experimenting with their heavier-than-air mach- ines, Dr.' Simon Newcombe, a noted American scientist, scorned the very suggestion of mechani- cal flight. He argued that "no possible combination of known substan- ces, known form of machinery and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which we will fly long dis- tances through the air." And he concluded: "May not our mech- anicians be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of the great class of problems with which man can never cope, and give up all attempts to grapple with it?" Yes, flying, so commonplace today, seemed "utter bilge" fifty- six years ago. Inventors of all forms of il- lumination have also been caus- tically "bilged." When gas light- ing was first mooted, Sir Walter Scott, the novelist, commented in a letter to a friend: "There is a man here who professes to light the streets of London with smoke." Electricity, when demonstrated in Paris in 1878, caused Profes- sor Erasmus Wilson to write: "With regard to electric light, much has been said for and against it, but I think I may say without fear of contradiction that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and very little , more ' will be heard of it." No less an authority than Wer- ner von Siemens, the Berlin physicist and e n g i n e e'r, once wrote a treatise for experts on the incandescent lamp. He ended by stating his conviction that electric lighting would never supplant gas lighting or reach its efficiency. If scientists were so wrong less than a century ago, may not today's pr op h e t s be equally wrong, perhaps in a far shorter span of time Again, to return to Paris, when Edison's phonograph, a voice- recording instrument that fore- shadowed the gramaphone, was first demonstrated b e f ore a learned French audience, Profes- sor Bouillard jumped up from his seat, seized the demonstrator by the throat, and nearly chok- ing him to death shouted: "You are imposing on us. Do you im- agine we are to be fooled by a ventriloquist?" Napoleon himself showed piti- able judgement, almost childish- ness, when he first met Robert Fulton, the steamship pioneer. Inspired by James Watt's steam engine, Fulton wanted to adapt it for navigation. But when he unfolded his plans, Napoleon asked acidly: "Do you propose to drive a ship with cigar smoke?" The steam engine itself pro- voked derision and hate at the outset. That bluff north country genius, George Stephenson, fath- er of the "Rocket," foresaw the day when every civilized country would be interlaced by steel rails, along which steam -driven coaches plied for hire. Yet, when he tried to bring his 13111 before Parliament for the construction of steam railways, he f o u n d himself a national laughing stock. One MP rasped, "You all know that locomotives Are driven by fire, If one of these engines is put upon the rails and rain comes the fire will be put out. You cannot, of course, wrap up a locomotive in cloths (loud laughter). They would be blown Off by the wind (more laughter), And if a strong wind came the fie would become sO hot that the boiler would burst.' At his final sally, Stephenson laughed as loudly as anyone else, but for a different reason. The absurdity of that eloquent mem- ber's argument convulsed him. On another occasion, a mem- ber speaking in opposition to the Bill asked Stephenson to assume that one of his engines was tra- velling at 10 m.p.h. when a cow strayed ontO the line. "Would that not be an awkward circum- stance?" he asked. "Yes," answered Stephenson in his rich Northumbrian brogue, "very awkward — for the coo!" Few outstanding benefactors of mankind ever stirred up such contempt, initially, as Marconi, the wireless pioneer. When he first came as a "young crackpot" to England, he was subjected to every indignity. On his arrival at the port, customs officers, probing into his suitcases and trunks, were startled by the com- plicated scientific apparatus they discovered. "The man's an an- archist," said one. So. Marconi, seeking peace to develop his world -changing ideas, found ,himself arrested and his apparatus confiscated. Happily, a British engineer quickly vouched for him. But, almost immediately after- wards, a L o n d b n newspaper, which should have known better, commented: "An Italian has ar- rived — with a concertina but no monkey. It is a street organ on which it is impossible to play, but it can make a lot of noise." However, the "concertina with no monkey" shortly afterwards bridged the Atlantic, so giving birth to modern radio's great achievements. Yet hardly had Marconi begun his successful ex- periments b e f or e old ladies started writing to the newspap- ers complaining about "all this electric stuff in the air." "It is crippling our health," they cried, in dismal chorus. "The man should be put away, and his godless contraptions burnt," advised others, itching to blot out a great man's vision and treat him as a dangerous criminal or lunatic. These examples show clearly enough that it is not wise to label every inventor's dr e a m as "bilge" One day the Astrono- mer Royal's derision of space tra- vel may make him look just as silly! Fluoridation It seems to us that we must approach the question of fluori- dation from a ' standpoint of logic. If it is the government's job to see to it that we are all bristling with health, then let's blow the works. The water sup- ply can be made the transmis- sion device of every beneficial substance which mankind can discover. On the other hand, if . health is the responsibility of indivi- dual people and not the job of government, let's keep it that' way, .. This nation was founded on concepts of human liberty. The government was to be the great referee, not the universal cor- nucopia. If , fluorides are bene- ficial they can be bottled, pow- dered, tableted or otherwise pre- pared and sold over the drug counter as needed . . For goodness sakes, let's op- pose this march towards socia- lized medicine. Let's not remove the right of a man to make up his own mind.—Colorado Springs Gazette -Telegraph. NOT FUSSY "Can I go out and play with the boy next door, Mummy?" "No. You know I don't like him." "Then can I go out and fight him?" light We see by the paper they may take a vote, over in Bun- eombe County, on fluoridation of the public water supply, The purpose, of course, is to get flouride into the drinking water of all the children, so they'll have better teeth. Fluoridation, usually 'the sub- ject of bitter controversy, is a subject on which we've found it hard to get worked up — either way. For our guess is the results won't be so miraculous as to put all the dentists out of business; they apparently don't think so either, because most of them are for it, Nor, on the other hand, do we anticipate all the dire consequences some op- ponents predict. Our chief reaction is -to won- der about the waste of fluoride. If the sole purpose is to get fluoride into children, why not just prescribe it for the .chil- dren? Why put it into all the water used for industrial pur- poses? into all the water used for washing clothes and dishes? into all the water used for bathing? Why, in fact, waste fluoride on adulf°s, whose teeth already are formed? And why, in the name of all that is sensi- ble, give it to the thousands with false teeth? Wouldn't it make equally good sense to put the children's cod liver oil into the public water supply? Yes, sir, it would make just as good sense. And since it would, it seems reasonable to conclude that if we ever flu- oridate the public water supply, sometime we might get around to cod liver oiling it. That though convinces us we do take sides in this controversy after all. Fluoridation? We're ag'in it! Cod liver oil in drinking water! Ughl — The Franklin (N.C.) Pr e s s & Highlands Caconian. MODEST APPEAL — Hillevi Rom - bin, Swedish beauty currently reigning as "Miss Universe," models a conservative halter - type bathing suit of lastex. Straps of the jeweled top can be tied around the back for sunbathing. Suit's style is a swing to more suit, less skin, and typifies trend in suits this season. VIEW SCENE OF DEATH -- Mother St, Paul (center), Mather Superior of the Order of the Grey Cross, and members of her staff walk the grounds of the Villa St. Louis near Ottawa, after arriving to inspect the scene of the tragedy..